Teknium of Nous Research: Hermes 4.3 Sees 28,972 Quant Downloads Against 2,007 for the BF16 Original

Search for teknium and you get a few X screenshots plus reposts. Nobody says who the person is or what state the Hermes models are in. He keeps his real name private, but the weights download fine, so here is only what the APIs return.

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Search for teknium and you get a few X screenshots plus reposts. Nobody says who the person is or what state the Hermes models are in. He keeps his real name private, but the weights download fine, so

Short answer: Teknium is a co-founder of Nous Research, now leads the Hermes Agent product line, and appears as first author (Ryan Teknium) on the Hermes 4 technical report. The handle is a pseudonym. Every number below was pulled from the HuggingFace and GitHub APIs on 2026-11-01.

What the data shows: the BF16 Hermes-4.3-36B repo drew 2,007 downloads in 30 days while its GGUF build drew 28,972, a 14.4x gap on the same weights. Q4_K_M is 21.76 GB, which works out to 4.82 bits per weight, not 4. With 64 layers and 8 KV heads at head_dim 128, the KV cache costs 256 KiB per token: 2 GiB at 8k context, 8 GiB at 32k, 32 GiB at 128k. A 24GB card runs Q3_K_M at short context and nothing larger.

The hermes-agent repo carries 259,190 stars and 44 releases over 225 days, one every 5.1 days.